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Authors: Bill Tuckey & Thomas B. Floyd, Hardbound, 168 Pages, ISBN: 9780855664961 - First Edition, 1979 - **BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION (no dust jacket)**
The urban Australian of the last third of the 20th century nurses to his bosom a secret burnished image of himself as a tall, bronzed Anzac in a wide brown land. He will deny it, of course.
But one continually stumbles over evidence of the suburban Australian's yearning for the pioneer simplicities of his origin, for a way of identifying with the huge, harsh continent that almost accidentally became the home of disgraced, displaced and dispossessed Europeans in the wrong place at the bottom of the world, down among the heathens.
Today's urban Australian more than likely lives on the edge of a huge city, in a brick veneer suburban cottage, with swimming pool and backyard barbecue, all on a sixth of an acre or so; he owns two cars, a dog, two cats, a goldfish tank, and is running to fat.
His migratory movements are decided by the services available to him; in the enormous decentralised satellite suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne he does not have to go far to fmd supermarket, department store, shopping town, hotel, service station and almost any other facility he wants.
There are people living in Campbelltown and Blacktown who will literally never in their entire lives go into the Sydney metropolitan area.
There are people living in Frankston and Diamond Valley who will never see the heart of Melbourne...
From the First Chapter
